Word: royals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their career together was already half over) gets a brisk treatment, lighting for but a moment on the specters of Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best, band members who fell by the wayside before the big time. The group defined its early cheekiness at the 1963 Royal Command Performance before the Queen, where John famously said, "Would the people in the cheap seats clap your hands, and the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry." But America was the promised land, and the Anthology's first evening climaxes with their conquest of the colonies...
...impressive new Prospero has arrived on Broadway: the Royal Shakespeare Company's Patrick Stewart, well known to TV audiences as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation. In a performance he first offered to much acclaim last summer in Central Park, Stewart gives us a down-at-heels (barefoot, actually) aristocrat of lithe movements and piercing, narrow-eyed glances. Doubt and failure gnaw at him; he's a tatterdemalion schemer who knows, however potent his magic, that he's trafficking in forces that dwarf...
With all of England but the royal family tuned in, Princess Diana appeared on the BBC show "Panorama" tonight to say that her marital woes drove her to bulimia. Though her hour-long interview with reporter Martin Bashir offered no bombshells about the monarchy, Diana did continue the relatively new tradition of royal confessional. "I desperately wanted [the marriage] to work," she said of her 14-year marriage to Prince Charles. "I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything with him, and I thought we were a very good team." Diana also said that the news...
...National labor Relations Board has ruled that Royal had unfairly fired two employees. In addition, Royal is under investigation by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. And workers have filed complaints with the state Attorney General's office and the state Commission Against Discrimination. The council unanimously approved a resolution demanding that the city manager look into Royal and that Cambridge Hospital review its contracting policies...
...Healy said the city cannot do much unless federal or state agencies find that Royal broke laws. The city has no investigatory agency of its own, and usually only investigates construction companies, not service firms, before subcontracting, Healy said. Generally, a contract can only be terminated if a clear breach of the contract occurs...